Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Common Sense Education: Strategic Searching: Lesson Plan

5th - 8th Standards
Learn how to search the web effectively and efficiently in this lesson plan from Common Sense Education. How can students search the web so that the results are reliable, safe, and factual? Use the step-by-step tutorial in this resource...
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Simplify Research Notes

5th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to simplify your notes by deleting repeated information. [5:00]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Grow Research Using Resources to Answer Questions

3rd Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to grow research for an informational text by using resources to answer your questions. [3:40]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Cite Research Sources Used in an Informational Text

6th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to write a List of Sources by compiling all of the sources you used. [4:16]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Determine a Research Question

6th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine your research question by reviewing your notes and asking, "What do I want to teach others?" [4:54]
Instructional Video
Other

Seneca College (Canada): Seneca Libraries: Integrating Research Into Your Paper

6th - 8th Standards
This video demonstrates how to properly integrate material you find in articles and books into your paper. [2:26]
Instructional Video
Goodwill

Gcf Global: Synthesizing Information

9th - 10th Standards
In this how-to video, students will learn how to synthesize multiple pieces of informational text. Synthesizing content from multiple sources will help students provide evidence in their informational writing....
Instructional Video
Understood For All

Understood.org: Video: How First Graders Learn to Research and Organize Ideas

K - 1st Standards
In this video from GreatSchools, viewers will observe strategies that first graders use as they research topics and organize new information. Observers will note the conversations about what they learn and examples of note taking. [1:45]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Worm Turns: Molly of Denali

K - 1st Standards
In this animated story [25:25] from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, a power failure and a scary tale leave Molly and her friends terrified of gigantic ice worms. After seeing evidence of ice worms at the lake, Molly decides that...
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Determine a Research Question

3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine your research question by reviewing your notes and asking, "What do I want to teach others?" [4:04]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Generate Research Questions

5th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to generate burning questions to guide your research by asking, What do I want to know more about? [4:31]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Grow Research by Reading Informational Text Resources

5th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to add to your current research by reading new texts with your burning questions in mind. [5:08]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Grow Research by Reading Additional Texts

6th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to add to your current research by reading new texts with your burning questions in mind. [5:20]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Generate Research Questions

5th - 7th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to generate burning questions to guide your research by asking, "What do I want to know more about?" [5:02]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Gather Evidence and Cite Sources

8th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to collect evidence that supports your thesis by using a variety of properly cited resources. [4:52]
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Research Tools: Lesson 2

6th - 9th
In this lesson, students see a variety of tools that can be used in order to conduct research. It is 2 of 6 in the series titled "Research Tools."
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Research Tools: Lesson 5

6th - 9th
In this lesson, students see a variety of tools that can be used in order to conduct research. It is 5 of 6 in the series titled "Research Tools."
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Research Tools: Lesson 1

9th - 10th
In this lesson, students see a variety of tools that can be used in order to conduct research. It is 1 of 6 in the series titled "Research Tools."
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Key Word Internet and Database Searches

9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over how to perform a key word search. [4:23]
Instructional Video
Imagine Learning Classroom

Learn Zillion: Begin Research by Listing What You Already Know

3rd Standards
In this lesson, you will learn how to start research for writing an informational text by listing what you know and what you want to find out. [2:50]